Debra Hamel

Debra Hamel is an American historian specializing in ancient Greece.

Hamel was born in 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics with departmental and general honors. Hamel studied at Yale University and graduated with an M.A. and M.Phil. in classical languages and literatures in 1993. She received her Ph.D. in 1996, with the dissertation Athenian Strategoi: The Extent and Exercise of Authority in the Military Sphere, 501/0-322/1 three years later. From 1998 to 2001 Hamel was Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University.

Debra Hamel’s main topics are ancient Greek law and Greek military history. See has written several articles for the journal Military History Quarterly.

Hamel lives with her husband and her two daughters in North Haven.

Work

• Athenian Generals. Military Authority in the Classical Period., Brill, Leiden a.o. 1998 (Mnemosyne Supplementum 182) ISBN 90-04-10900-5
• Trying Neaira. The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2003. ISBN 0300107633

External links

• Personal website
• Personal blog
• Hamel at Library Thing

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